Re: Internet Security Day

From: Loganaden Velvindron <logan_at_afrinic.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:25:22 +0400

On 2/9/16 1:52 PM, Mohammad Irshaad Abdool wrote:
> Hi SM;
>
> Thats a good news.
>
> Well one point that I find really important and coherent with current
> issues, is the /radicalisation/ done over the Internet.
> Before the Internet Boom and until recently, people, youths or grown
> ups had to interact with certain group of people or follow certain
> talks held at specific regions in the country to be radicalised in the
> improper way. But now, with the advent of the Internet, Facebook,
> Emails, Targetted Ads and espcially YouTube, almost everybody is at
> risk particular children.
>
> Maybe some type of filtering at either ISP or customer level could help.

I think that the issue is largely about educating people, in particular
children. "Filtering the internet" is opening a can of worms. Besides,
from a business perspective, doing website development in a country
where your clients websites can be "filtered" is a show stopper.


>
> Regards
>
> On 9 February 2016 at 13:35, Ish Sookun <ish_at_lsl.digital
> <mailto:ish_at_lsl.digital>> wrote:
>
> Hi SM,
>
> On 02/09/2016 12:23 PM, S Moonesamy wrote:
>
>
> The news article has a comment from a victim: "En octobre
> 2015, j’avais
> repéré une annonce sur le site d’un journal en ligne relative
> à la vente
> d’une voiture à Rs 50 000. Le vendeur m’a demandé un virement
> Moneygram.
> Je me suis renseignée auprès de plusieurs banques de l’île et
> toutes
> m’ont assuré qu’il n’y avait aucun problème". Was that good
> advice?
>
>
> No. It was a bad advice coming from bank officials. With Moneygram
> and Western Union it is more difficult to follow the money trail
> that leads to the cyber criminal.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Ish Sookun
>
> I drink coffee and manage Linux servers for lexpress.mu
> <http://lexpress.mu>
>
>
>
>
> --
> *Mohammad Irshaad Abdool*
> /Sakarya University ; Turkey/
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